Czech architect and builder, known for the so-called Atomic Dome in Hiroshima, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Place of piety designed by architect Ladislav Žák and built on the location of a settlement burnt by Nazis. It represents an exceptional example of modern landscape art with memorials on the location of destroyed houses.
A bridge spanning the river Vltava and connecting Holešovice and Libeň. A unique 1920s avant-garde functionalist building.
Prominent European architect of the first third of the 20th century, furniture designer and theoretician of art. He became one of the most important representatives of moderist architecture.
Czech architect in the interwar period, author of a large number of projects in the spirit of neoclassical modernism. He also participated in the preservation of historic buildings.
Czech architects who designed in Brutalist style. They became famous for the design of Kotva Department Store and the Thermal hotel in Karlovy Vary.
The functionalist building of the Mánes Association of Fine Artists and the water tower are a part of the characteristic panorama of the New Town river bank in Prague.
Reinforced concrete bridge with a relief of T. G. Masaryk and the symbol of the town of Kralupy. The only road bridge spanning the river Vltava in the town and its area.
One of the most important buildings of modern architecture in Europe, built between the two world wars by architect Adolf Loos. It is also one of the most successful examples of original spatial solutions in architecture.
Unique Neo-Renaissance building designed by architect Josef Schulz. It is characterised by exceptional artistic decorations of the exterior and the interior, on which many foremost Czech artists worked.
A functionalist monument on top of Vítkov Hill in Prague. It is one of the dominant features of modern Prague architecture. It includes one of the largest bronze equestrian statues in the world.
Original building created by expanding the original Stock Exchange building. A progressive and one of the most interesting examples of modernist architecture.
Monumental complex containing office buildings with a dominating constructivist tower, which became a symbol of the city of Ostrava.
Czech architect, designer, editor and university teacher, whose most significant work is the building of the Mánes Association of Fine Artists in Prague.
Austrian architect, city planner and prominent university teacher who worked in Prague and influenced a whole generation of Czech architects.
A monumental purist-functionalist building designed by architect Ernst Wiesner. One of the original buildings of modernist architecture in Brno and one of the most impressive buildings in the Moravian capital.
One of the most typical forms of residential architecture in socialist Czechoslovakia (1948–1989). More than one quarter of the population of the Czech Republic still live in panel housing estates.
Slovenian architect, city planner and designer who spent a lot of time working in Prague and significantly influenced the appearance of Prague Castle.
Czech Neo-Renaissance and Art Nouveau architect, drawer and city planner, author of important public buildings in Prague.
A unique complex of wooden buildings in folk style, designed by the Slovenian architect Dušan Jurkovič and located in the Moravian-Silesian Beskids.
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